Video Game composers and their styles

Hi, my name is Haley Worry.

And for my project I had video game composers and

their styles.

So starting off, I'm going to say what we're going

to discuss in this presentation.

So first of all, we're going to discuss how sound

and video games began.

Then we're going to move into music composers koji Condo

in the world of Nintendo because he was very big

influence in the Nintendo.

We have martin O'donnell who was big in to the

halo franchise C418, also known as Daniel Rosenfeld in Minecraft

and then vocal Lloyd, which is not vocal eight itself

is not composer, but overall it is made by many

1000 songs from composers.

So the breaking off, I want to talk about the

early stages of video games because it may seem like

we just got to the stage right now we did

not. So as a brief history here, a video game

music has come a long way and one of the

first people that created video games was William Head and

Bottom. And he made this game that was very similar

to Pong in 1958.

And Pong was made in 1970s, I believe.

And so when this first was created, music was just

simple, eight bit chip tune, just sounds from circuit boards.

And when you think of these kind of music, we

think of pac man and some of the early arcade

games, those are still more advanced compared to like pong.

But there's still good examples of this.

So why sound was initially added?

Well, sound was added according to Karen Collins in the

game Sound, an introduction to the history theory and practice

of video game music and sound design book.

It was out headed because it gave a sense of

winning XXX two people.

And so one of the first companies that did this

was the Nutting Associates.

And they created this game called the computer side space

game in 1971.

And I conclude I included a little image here at

the top that kind of shows what it looked like,

but not entirely okay.

And so next moving on, we have pinball and slot

machines. These were some of the original founders for guess

you could say gay music.

So stated in Karen Collins book, the very first thing

that sound was implemented into was it was because it

gave the sense of winning and success.

But it was not like arcade games with super Mario

brothers in the game over sound.

So with the company valley who or bali manufacturing manufacturing

company, they made this bagatelle, which was essentially a pinball

machine, but it's not the fancy fancier versions you think

of it as the lights and the sounds and everything.

This was just a simple wooden top, but eventually they

added bells and buzzers and essentially excited people and attracted

them. And it was just interesting to see that they

added this so early on and so early arcade machines,

these were a lot farther on compared to the wooden

bagatelle pinball machine.

Early R.

K. Machines.

They still were not as advanced as so they have

today, but they had more sound.

It was a difficult process because at the time it

was risking removing the actual design of the game just

to add some sound.

But because of that most people did not add a

lot of sound.

Typically they were short introductions, the simple game over sound

and then some limited sound effects that were throughout the

game. So if we go back to the idea of

pac man, just a simple sound that pac man makes

throughout the game, that would be probably included into these

early arcade machines because it's not something that was just

hard to add versus the super Mario brothers theme that

was playing throughout the entire time.

So now I would like to move on to my

music composers, I have stated.

So the first one being koji, condom cozy Condo was

a video game composer who was known for his soundtracks

such as Super my eyebrows and Legend of Zelda, both

being very good and Nintendo games.

Koji began working in the music industry.

At a young age at the age of five, he

began taking lessons for the electric organ.

His life in, Nintendo began around 1940 84, not 48,

and he always had a huge interest in Arcade Games.

And so in 1984, Nintendo sent him a message offering

a position as a sound programmer.

And because of this excitement, condo accepted in about 1984

at the same time.

Him and Heroes Aku Tanaka and Yukio Kamioka worked on

this game called Punch Out.

And when he created this game, Condo gained a lot

of popularity.

Overall, Condo is known for critics of those memorable video

game melodies such as Super Mario Bro's and then the

legend of Zelda around 1985.

And because of this influence condo created.

He sold out.

The NES system probably run in 1983.

To this day, Condo could continue to make video game

soundtracks, but now he works as a supervisor, arranger and

consultant for Nintendo Sound Team.

Uh, included some of the music, but I will not

play it in this one.

I figured if someone wants to listen to it, you

can click the links or you can look it up

itself. I included the titles as well.

Mm hmm.

So moving on to the next one.

I have Martin O'Donnell.

And so martin O donnell, if anyone does not know

is an american music composer who is known for a

series in halo.

He works with a man named Michael Salvatori.

And so most of his scores that he's done was

also done with this musical composer.

So then, and while it may seem like he began

um, in the industry with video games itself, he did

not, he actually began writing television and radio score jingles.

And so this was his jump into the music industry.

He then created the soundtrack for myth to which was

a bungee game.

I personally have no experience with this game, but I'm

sure a lot of people do.

And then after creating the soundtrack for this bunch of

contacted him to work on the other project, which was

also known as halo, which I personally do know and

I think the score is actually really good.

And so because of these halo themes being very iconic

and nostalgic for gamers Martin and many rewards and he

is well known for the music he's created.

But unfortunately he has not done any more soundtracks since

2001. So when my third composers is Daniel Rosenfeld, also

known as C418, Daniel Rosenfeld was known for his music

and Minecraft.

And while it may seem like he was very big

into music and he wanted to go into music, he

actually did not see himself going into it right away

growing up with his brother as a kid, his brother

was a very big influence on him.

He was very creative, always enjoyed writing drawing music.

And so one day his brother had shown him again.

And so Daniel saw the music and figured it was

something that pretty much anyone could do and decided to

try and make the music himself and beginning making this

music for the game which was not my group at

the time.

Um it's an older one, he actually found that he

really liked making music.

So Daniel Marcus, this is where over the span of

three years Daniel continued to work on his music and

eventually he got better at it.

Eventually if he learned of this Source that was T.

I. G.

Source and that was an online community of creators and

him being a creator he was on it and eventually

he found this a man named Marcus who gamers now

known as notch, who was also the creator of Minecraft.

Marcus had told him about this black game and Daniel

had enjoyed the idea of it and wanted to work

on it with him.

So him and Marcus continued to work on creating Minecraft

that we know today, and Marcus worked on the game

itself, but Daniel worked on creating music did so when

creating the music, Dana wanted the sounder to be opposite

to the game.

And so while Minecraft kind of pixilated and chaotic ish,

but still has a very simple look.

The music was much simple, it was just simple tuned,

relaxing and it was soft and just ambient.

And Daniel says that one of the reasons why the

game is so popular is because of the music as

well and because of the music and the experience Minecraft

gave him, it made him who he was today as

a composer and it gave him the job that he

has today and he greatly appreciates it.

And then with the final composure that you could say

it being vocal Lloyd and for those who most likely

do not Vocal Lloyd, Vocal Lloyd is a, it began

as a voice synthesizer which eventually became what we know

today. Can Moochie Hideki created the software in 2000.

The original vocal Lloyd synthesizing system.

But with the help of Yamaha on Krypton future media,

it became the system we know today.

And so with the characters that we see today such

as Hosni Mcu and uh rent and Len Kagami, This

was created around 2007.

But this originally just started off with Hudson Amico.

That's why she's known as the top.

Two years later after um the release of her about

2000 and nine, the first Vocal Lloyd game was created

project Eva.

And so this is a game that still goes on

today and how many fans enjoy it.

And one thing to add is that while the characters

themselves are fake, the voices behind the characters are real

voice actors and these come from either fans, composers such

as WAcha and urine deco 27.

Um, There is a lot of voices behind it and

they said there is around 90 voice banks for the

vocal cords.

So what the Project Diva Project you is a rhythm

game that makes, takes the music from composers such as

uh wah kah, LeMay's B and others and allows the

games to play them.

Some songs are harder than others and it just at

different levels.

Overall create a different sense of fun and challenge.

So, and as I say, two before how the characters

have real voice actors for instance, Goku bo one of

the less known characters is played by gut, a japanese

musician and I don't know if that person is still

going around as a musician, but I'm pretty sure they

do not anymore, which is sad to see.

I also include some music, but again I will not

play it, you can look it up or you can

click the links.

I just trying to fit time in.

So over all those are some of the music composers.

I know a lot of gamers and myself enjoy.

And so going into my conclusion games have come very

far since simple bells buzzers and a bit and it's

come a lot since early on arcade games nes into

the new Xbox.

And if you think about how it's come from eight

bit to surround sound, it's very interesting to see that

in so little time we've had such big technology, technological

advancement and one thing I've noticed is that while every

game has differences between genre and gameplay, they have one

similar thing, They all have sound.

And the sound itself is different whether it's a bit

or if it's simple, just tunes like Minecraft or it

could be the fancy, high end vocal light songs.

It all still includes mm sound in the game to

create this excitement in the gamers and anyone who plays

these games.

And that's one thing I found is very interesting to

note. And so here are my references.

Um, I got some of these from the catalogue source

and I got some of these from biography sources online

that I felt were trustworthy.

And so I wanted to say thank you for coming

to my presentation.

I was very interested in this topic and I was

glad to research on it and I hope everyone enjoys

and start to appreciate video game music as it is

because it's not an easy topic and it's not easy

to create and a lot of work goes into making

it. So I'm thank you for reading this, watching it

any above.

Thank you very much.

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